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    Cymatics is the study of wave phenomena and how sound vibrations can be visualized. It involves vibrating a medium like sand, water, or liquid and observing the patterns that emerge on the surface. The field was pioneered in the 17th century by scientists like Galileo, Hooke, and Chladni who observed resonance. In the 20th century, Hans Jenny and John Stuart Reid further developed the field by creating devices like the CymaScope to visualize sound waves. The CymaScope has applications in fields like musicology, allowing musicians to see the patterns created by different notes, and oceanography, giving insights into wave dynamics.

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    Cymatics is the study of wave phenomena and how sound vibrations can be visualized. It involves vibrating a medium like sand, water, or liquid and observing the patterns that emerge on the surface. The field was pioneered in the 17th century by scientists like Galileo, Hooke, and Chladni who observed resonance. In the 20th century, Hans Jenny and John Stuart Reid further developed the field by creating devices like the CymaScope to visualize sound waves. The CymaScope has applications in fields like musicology, allowing musicians to see the patterns created by different notes, and oceanography, giving insights into wave dynamics.

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    Cymatics is the study of wave phenomena and how sound vibrations can be visualized. It involves vibrating a medium like sand, water, or liquid and observing the patterns that emerge on the surface. The field was pioneered in the 17th century by scientists like Galileo, Hooke, and Chladni who observed resonance. In the 20th century, Hans Jenny and John Stuart Reid further developed the field by creating devices like the CymaScope to visualize sound waves. The CymaScope has applications in fields like musicology, allowing musicians to see the patterns created by different notes, and oceanography, giving insights into wave dynamics.

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    Cymatics

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    Cymatics is the study of wave phenomena and how sound vibrations can be visualized. It involves vibrating a medium like sand, water, or liquid and observing the patterns that emerge on the surface. The field was pioneered in the 17th century by scientists like Galileo, Hooke, and Chladni who observed resonance. In the 20th century, Hans Jenny and John Stuart Reid further developed the field by creating devices like the CymaScope to visualize sound waves. The CymaScope has applications in fields like musicology, allowing musicians to see the patterns created by different notes, and oceanography, giving insights into wave dynamics.

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    Cymatics: Visualizing Sound

    Information Visualization
    Visualization The action or fact of visualizing, the power or process of forming a mental picture or vision of something not actually present to the sight (OED) Information Visualization: "Visualization provides an interface between two powerful information processing systems human mind and the modern computer. Visualization is the process of transforming data, information, and knowledge into visual form making use of human's natural visual capabilities. With effective visual interfaces we can interact with large volumes of data rapidly and effectively to discover hidden characteristics, patterns, and trends.

    What is Cymatics
    Field of inquiry The study of modal phenomena Greek: (something swollen, or a wave)

    Definitions :
    The structure and dynamics of waves and vibrations. The process of visualizing sound by vibrating a medium.

    Scientific Origins : Traced to da Vinci, Galileo Galilei: Observations of resonance Robert Hooke: Sonic vibrations Ernst Chladni: 'the father of acoustics, and Chladni figures Hans Jenny: father of cymatics . John Stuart Reid: acoustics engineer and creator of CymaScope

    CymaScope

    CymaScope & Oceanography

    CymaScope & Musicology

    12 Piano Notes Made Visible

    Depending on the song rhythm pattern obtained different images. The screenshots show us 3 visuals of the song each 10 seconds and gives the possibility to see and compare changes in dynamics.

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    Dream BIG!! Think about the universe forming and the immense sound of the universe forming, and if we ponder on that, than perhaps Cymatics had an influence on the formation of the Universe itself.

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